Hi, Raymond, This is absolutely the case: You can only play songs that are in your iTunes library. Likewise for adding songs to playlists. On Dec 6, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Raymond wrote: > Hi Ricardo, > > Thanks, that's much easier. > > But, I got not the Add to Playlist option when I used the VO-Shift-M on the > item that I want to copy. Just three options, Get Info, Unselect, and Copy. > So I thought it must be copy, but that didn't the trick. > > Than I thought maybe it is not possible from a streaming source such as my > music server. So I did import just a single cd into the iTunes Library to see > if I could copy it to a playlist. > > And that was no problem at all! > > So my conclusion, you can only put songs on a playlist if they are in the > iTunes library. > > If I'm wrong, please let me know. > > Regards, > > Raymond > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ricardo Walker" <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 5:33 PM > Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Hi from a new user and yes, a question > > > hello raymond, > > All that work is not needed to put songs in your playlists. > > 1. Go to the table with your songs and interact with it with VO shift down > arrow. Once you are on the song you wish to add press VO shift M. This > brings up the contest menu. arrow down to "Add to playlist", which is a sub > menu that contains the playlist you have made. Just press return on the > playlist you want to move your music to > > hth > On Dec 6, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Raymond wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> My name is Raymond Jansen, live in The Netherlands and a Mac and iPhone user >> since a few weeks now. >> >> so sorry if I ask beginners questions. Before I do ask a question I will try >> to find the answer on the web. >> >> But lets start with something that keeps me awake... >> >> I'm playing with iTunes on the Mac. I have a music server (Hifidelio) and >> did setup iTunes to use it as a source, and set it up so that it doesn't >> copy the songs into the iTunes library. So it streams the music from the >> server to the Mac using WIFI. That just works great. >> >> Now I'm willing to create a playlist with songs that I would like to have on >> my iPhone 3GS. >> >> I did create a new playlist, but can't get songs copied (drag and drop) from >> the numberslist on to the new playlist. Here are the steps that I take: >> >> 1. Move to the numberslist and start interacting with it by using >> VO-Shift-Down Arrow. >> 2. Move to the Name column and down to the song I want to copy. >> 3. Route mouse to VO cursor with VO-Command-F5. >> 4. When checking the mouse position with VO-F5 its on the correct name. >> 5. Mouse down with VO-Command-Shift-Space. >> 6. Turn off cursor tracking with VO-Shift-F3. >> 7. Stop interacting with the numberslist with VO-Shift-Up Arrow. >> 8. Move to the source list and start interacting with it by using >> VO-Shift-Down Arrow. >> 9. Move to my new playlist and route the mouse pointer to the VO cursor with >> VO-Command-F5. >> 10. When checking the mouse position I hear something about a Frame list, so >> not the name of the new playlist. >> 11. Mouse up with VO-Command-Shift-Space. >> >> Result: >> My playlist is still empty. >> >> Questions: >> 1. What did I wrong? >> 2. Why is the mouse pointer not on the playlist but do I hear something >> about a frame list. I think this is the reason that it doesn't work. >> 3. How can I copy a whole album and not just single numbers. When I move to >> the Album colum in the numbers list and try to put the mouse pointer on the >> name of the album it doesn't work and the mouse pointer stays on the Apple >> icon. >> >> Please can anybody help me out? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Raymond >> >> >>> >>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>> >>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >>> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> >>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface >>> at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> > >> >> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >> >> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> >> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> > >> >> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >> >> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> >> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface >> at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >